In the year 1969, man landed on the moon for the very first time.
We had conquered space and actually set foot on the moon!
Mankind had bravely gone where no one had ever gone before.
But that was nearly half a century ago, and to this very day, we've still only explored 3% of our own planet's oceans
Imagine that, just 3%.
That means that 97% of our planet's depths are still yet to be explored.
The 3% that we have explored have shown us things that are beyond belief.
And so we've brought you the top 5 underwater discoveries that cannot be explained
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Number 5: Strange object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
The mysteries of our world truly are endless, but what we're focusing on here are the ones found underwater that can't be explained
So here's number 5 on the list.
The Baltic Sea anomaly refers to interpretations of an indistinct sonar image
The image was taken by Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg, and their Swedish "Ocean X" diving team
while treasure hunting on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea in June of 2011
The Ocean X diving team describes themselves as treasure hunters and salvage operators
who specialize in underwater searches for sunken antique high-end beverages and historic artifacts
What they captured on their sonar picture and brought back was an image of something on the seafloor
The blurry yet interesting sonar image was taken while searching for an old shipwreck in the summer of 2011
The image is said to show a 60 meter wide circular object
As if that isn't strange enough, they claim that the image shows features resembling ramps, stairways,
and other structures that aren't produced by nature
The diving group returned to the same spot the following year with the full intention of capturing a clearer image
But they said that upon arriving at the correct position,
they faced mysterious electrical interference.
There have, since the discovery, been all manner of theories as to what the object is
Some people believe that it's a gateway to another world or the crashed remains of an alien ship
While others refer to it as an underwater Stonehenge
Some samples of the rock were apparently recovered from the site and analyzed by an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University
The professor reported that the samples indicated that most were granite and sandstone
But amongst the sandstone and granite samples, there was a loose piece of basaltic or volcanic rock which had
absolutely no place at the site where it was found
The Ocean X dive team have said that there are plans currently underway to be
able to transport wealthy tourists to the site by submarine
So, if you have the right type of money,
maybe you can go and have a look for yourself
Number Four: Underwater rivers complete with trees, leaves, and waterfalls
Underwater is a world that there is, as we have said, very little known about compared to land
This means that we are constantly finding things underwater that we never knew existed
Things that may have been there for thousands or even millions of years and are only recently being discovered
Number four on our list of underwater discoveries that can't be explained comes in the form of an amazing natural occurrence
An underwater river has been discovered that comes complete with its own trees, leaves,
And of course, what river would be seen dead without its own waterfall
Researchers that were working on the Black Sea have found currents of water
350 times greater than the River Thames in London that flow along the seabed
Carving out channels much like a river does on land
The undersea river, which is up to 115 feet deep in places,
even has rapids and waterfalls
Just like those on land
In terms of how much water's been found to be flowing through this underwater river system,
if it were on land, it would be the sixth biggest river on earth.
But that's not the most mysterious of these underwater phenomenon
No, there's an underwater river in Mexico that has some different characteristics altogether
In Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, there's an advanced dive that'll take your breath away
Housed in a cenote or underwater water filled cave system, there's an actual underwater river like no other
It flows right through the ocean
The strange happening is formed by limestone bedrock which collapses and forms a pit which acts like a reservoir
The reservoir fills with a mix of fresh groundwater and salt water
Eventually, organic matter ends up in the trench
and when that decomposes, it produces a cloud of hydrogen sulfide that separates the freshwater above from the saltwater below
Divers can actually swim right through the cloud which magically resembles a flowing body of water
With fallen leaves and bare branches lining the river, you can't help but think that you're in a mystical forest
This underwater river in a water-filled cave in Mexico is 33 metres under the water
And yet, it resembles a fully flowing body of water and has waterfalls and trees along its banks
This is really one underwater discovery that cannot be explained
Number three: pyramids aren't just in Egypt, they're underwater now as well
When we think of pyramids we might think of those towering objects that stick out in the deserts of Egypt in northern Africa
We would think of sand, yes
But maybe not the sand that lies on the bottom of the ocean
As far as underwater discoveries go,
private yacht owner Diocleciano Silva made number three on our list when his boat's equipment picked up a
mysterious object at a depth of 40 meters
The strange object that was discovered was a perfectly squared structure
It's thought that there is no way that this discovery could be of natural origin
That means that someone or something had to have put it there
The underwater pyramid stands at a height of over 60 meters high and 8,000 square meters at the base
It lies between the islands of Terceira and São Miguel
It's not only a strange thing to have found underwater, but the place that it stands and its orientation are also mysterious
The structure is oriented upon the four cardinal directions
The four cardinal directions are those that are shown on any compass
So North, East, South, and West
So a mysterious underwater pyramid that faces the four cardinal directions at once
Most recently, archaeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (or APIA as they're otherwise known)
have identified archaeological evidence on Pico Island that supports their belief
that human occupation in the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years
The evidence comprises of a great number of similar protohistoric pyramidal rock structures, some of them 13 metres high
These ancient underwater structures may have been built according to an oriented plan aligned with summer solstices
Which suggests they were built with an intended purpose
The vertex of the pyramid was facing north and south like the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
There are also very many people who would say that the structure could be linked to the mythical underwater city of legend, Atlantis
The mythical city that supposedly disappeared in a day and night when it sunk into the waters of the Azores has been searched for for centuries
Perhaps this perfectly oriented pyramidal structure could lead the way
Who knows
But it definitely deserves a place amongst the top five underwater discoveries that cannot be explained
Number two: the finger of death is ice cold
Some of the mysteries that we uncover in the world that we live in today are seriously messed up and way beyond comprehension
There are forces at work in this world that are far too weird and wonderful for us to even know where to begin
While us as humans are going above and beyond to create and bring some of the newest ideas to life
We really do have absolutely nothing on nature.
Whether it's mother nature or God
Whoever it is has got a dark sense of humor as can be readily seen with our next item on the list
In at number two on our list of the top five underwater discoveries that cannot be explained is beyond belief
Some of the natural forces on our planet, we've already shown you the epic power of
Now, we'll show you how gentle yet deadly it can be with its delivery
Here is one of the most frightening things that Nature has to offer
The so-called ice finger of death is an icicle of salty brine water that resembles a finger
The creepy phenomenon is caused by cold sinking brine which is more dense than the rest of the seawater
It forms a brine achill as it contacts the warmer water below the surface
In the winter, the air temperature above the sea ice can be below negative 20 degrees Celsius
Whereas the sea water itself is only about negative 1.9 degrees celsius
Heat flows from the warmer sea up to the very cold air, forming new ice from the bottom
The salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels in the ice
And because it's very cold and salty, it's denser than the water beneath
The result is that the brine sinks in a descending plume
But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice,
it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with
This forms a fragile tube of ice surrounding the descending plume
Which grows into what's called a brinicle
Brinicles are found in both the Arctic and the Antarctic
But it has to be pretty calm for them to grow long enough to become fingers of death
When they do however become long enough to become icy fingers of death
They approach the sea floor where there are of course a wide range of animals that crawl about on the cold ocean floor
These creatures may be able to withstand the fairly cold temperature of the sea water
But when they're touched by the icy finger of death, there's absolutely no escaping their fate
They become part of a moving underwater ice floe of grime
Number one: Loki's castle is not in Asguard after all
Sticking with the frozen depths of our ocean here
We top our list of unexplainable underwater discoveries with another recent find that lies
beneath the ice-covered oceans of the Arctic
Life on our planet is hard enough on the surface, let alone underwater
And if you're gonna live underwater
Then surely you would flock to the waters of the Caribbean or the Maldives in order to set up home
Well, scientists have found an entire natural world underwater and the most mysterious part
is that all these plants and creatures are living happily and actually thriving in a place that's so hostile that nobody thought to look
And even when they did we didn't have the technology for it to be possible
The before now unknown world of Loki's castle (as it's being referred to) was discovered by researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway
These discoveries are an incredibly interesting look into a part of Norwegian culture that is under explored
The evidence gathered by the researchers shows that there's an entire ecosystem living on volcanic seamounts in extreme conditions in the Arctic sea
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